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What is Adobe® Director® 12?

Adobe Director 12 and Adobe Shockwave® Player software help you create and publish compelling interactive games, demos, prototypes, kiosks, simulations, and eLearning courses for the web, iOS devices, Mac and Windows® desktops, DVDs, and CDs. Integrate virtually any major file format, including video created with Adobe Flash® software and native 3D content, for the greatest return on your creativity.

Who should buy Adobe Director 12?

Multimedia application authors, 3D game developers, and education and training application authors who want to create the most compelling interactive content should purchase Adobe Director 12.

Publish to iOS devices workflow — Adobe Director 12 can now publish games directly to iOS devices, through a simple, yet powerful workflow. Existing games can be republished to run on the iOS platform. Enhance the gaming experience by incorporating new support for accelerometers and other device specific interactions. * Additional Fees Apply.

Stereoscopy with Adobe Director 12 — Using Lingo Script or JAVA Script, Stereoscopy can be enabled with appropriate Depth settings in Adobe Director 12. Shockwave Player 12 converts the shockwave 3D content to stereoscopy mode at run time without any extra effort. Game player can choose to experience the immersive stereoscopic mode at anytime during game play.

Exciting new textures and shaders — Make your Director movies a visual treat by taking advantage of the exciting new textures, such as PerlinNoise Texture, CubeMap Render Texture and shaders, such as Fresnel Shader.

Streaming support — Achieve an even wider variety of rich visual effects, including blur, drop shadow, bevel, glow, and more, with bitmap filters you can apply through the user interface or scripting.Take advantage of Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) to stream audio and video over the Internet.

Manipulate ByteArrays — Save development time and reduce application-loading time using ByteArray datatype, which lets you easily access and manipulate binary data.

Enhanced physics engine — Create new levels of advanced dynamic motion and interaction in your games and simulations thanks to an enhanced physics engine that offers support for dynamic concave rigid bodies.

Enhanced productivity with multiple undo/redo —Experiment freely, knowing you can instantly undo or redo multiple steps in one click.

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GENERAL AUTHORING

Do I need both the Mac and Windows product versions to create cross-platform movies?

Director 12 enables you to create executable files and Shockwave content for both Mac and Windows platforms from both the Mac version and the Windows version of the product. We recommend that you test your content on all platforms where you expect users to view it. In addition, you may need to debug your content on the target platform if you are creating content that has system level controls.

Note: The publish to iOS feature is available only with the MAC version of Adobe Director 12.

What media types does Director 12 support?

Director 12 is the industry leader in supporting multiple media types, with support for QuickTime video, video for Adobe Flash, bitmaps, text, vectors, sound, and 3D content, as well as streaming RealVideo and RealAudio.

PLAYBACK AND DISTRIBUTION

Developers save their Director content as Shockwave movies viewable on the web. Users view this content from within all popular browsers using Adobe Shockwave Player.

How many people have Shockwave Player installed? How do they get it?

Today, most web users (more than 400 million) have Shockwave Player installed and can immediately view Shockwave content. Users can visit the Shockwave Player Download Center to easily download the latest software.

Director 12 can create executables, called projectors. Director 12 enables you to create executables and Shockwave content for both Mac and Windows platforms from both the Mac and Windows versions of the product.

Note:The publish to iOS feature is available only with the MAC version of Adobe Director 12.